Climate Ireland Adaptation Network
The Climate Ireland Adaptation Network is a practitioner network aimed at sharing expertise and creating learning opportunities around adaptation in Ireland as well as improving the consistency of adaptation implementation.
Its focus is to provide a forum for climate risk and adaptation planning practitioners in Ireland and to plan effectively for the future climate and environment of Ireland.
Seminar
The network has held annual seminars since 2023 with 2025's seminar held on the 25th November in Dublin.
Find the 2025 seminar report here: CIAN seminar report 2025 [pdf]
Find the 2024 seminar report here: CIAN seminar report 2024 [pdf]
Newsletters
The network also releases periodic newsletters to highlight case studies, national and international developments and advances in climate adaptation and risk. Look at previous newsletters here:
Working groups
Following the CIAN seminar in October 2024, four working groups were convened during 2025 and early 2026 to advance the common understanding across the network of the following critical topics in climate adaptation and resilience: 1) technical definitions of resilience, 2) just resilience, 3) resilient decision-making, and 4) indicator development. The working group reports were released in Q2 2026.
The working groups were designed as collaborative, coproduction spaces that enabled participants to openly share their views, practices, and perspectives. A core goal of the CIAN working groups was to enhance communication between stakeholders, build stronger links across Ireland’s adaptation community, and provide a forum to discuss adaptation topics and identify practitioner needs and knowledge gaps. The meetings and workshops were important outcomes, bringing people together, strengthening relationships, and advancing collective learning across the adaptation community.
Contact
Find out more information and sign up for the network by sending an email to climateireland@epa.ie.